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Customer needs should be one of the primary considerations when designing a website or landing page. The era of customer-centric landing pages has dawned. And if your job involves being concerned with metrics like conversion, engagement, and bounce-rates, this is a post that you may want to sit straight up for. In this article, Travis Jamison explains why customer-centricity is so important and ho
We’re talking about Next.js. What is it, and where might it fit into our web development workflow? Drew McLellan talks to co-creator Guillermo Rauch to find out.
Here’s something I had to get my head wrapped around when I started building Jamstack sites. There are these different stages your site goes through where you
This is a guest post by Rahul Chhabria, Director of Product Marketing at Sentry. At Sentry, we believe that code is the center of every experience and when code works,…
How I deprecated my most popular open source project in favor of a better library
Over the years, as we’ve expanded in scale and functionalities, Facebook has evolved from a basic web server architecture into a complex one with thousands of services working behind the scenes. It’s no trivial task to scale the wide range of back-end services needed for Facebook’s products. And we found that many of our teams […]
Ever wanted to have a comments section for your blog, but were overwhelmed by the high cost and maintenance solutions? Firebase can be your savior. In this guide, Aman Thakur will show you how to add a comments section to your blog with Firebase, while learning the basics of Firebase on the way. Let’s build a super-simple comments section.
Wizard Zines' first print run: Help! I have a Manager!
As part of my onboarding as an intern on the Spectrum (a layer 4 reverse proxy) team, I learned that many internal services dogfood Spectrum, as they are exposed to the Internet and benefit from layer 4 DDoS protection.
Update: The leading-trim property was renamed to text-box-trim and is starting to gain browser support. You can read more about text-box-trim (as well as the
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Keeping open source software secure is a community responsibility. But with millions of projects, it’s hard to pinpoint the right signal from noise—and find and fix the vulnerabilities that really…
A website earns a backlink whenever another website links to it. But there’s a big difference between a backlink and a high-authority backlink. If an authoritative website links to yours, it can significantly boost your ranking in Google search. And this is why backlinks are so highly sought after in marketing… and why web designers should have this on their radar as they design websites for clien
Secondary DNS Override is a great option for any users that want to take advantage of the Cloudflare network, without transferring all of their zones to Cloudflare DNS as a primary provider.
Using Cloudflare Access, we can now restrict the ability to reach our admin panel only to team members who authenticate with a hard key. Starting today, we’re making that feature available to all teams.
Deploy Buttons help you deploy a project to the Workers Platform without even needing to set up a local development environment. Now, it’s as easy as clicking a Deploy Button and three short steps to deploy using our new web-based deploy tool.
I was playing with GitHub Actions the other day. Such a nice tool! Short story: you can have it run code for you, like run your build processes, tests, and
Sarah Higley does accessibility work and finds that "tables and grids are over-represented in accessibility bugs."
Open source powers software on a planetary scale: 99% of code is built on it. The rewards and challenges of creating open source are deeply familiar to the maintainers and…
We rewrote critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify, offering the fastest online shopping experience, entirely from scratch and without downtime.
Ionic Framework provides first-class support for building fast and mobile-optimized applications for any platform using React. In this tutorial, Jerry Navi will show you how to build forms using Ionic React’s UI input components in this tutorial. You will also learn how to use a library to help with detecting form input changes and responding to validation rules. Finally, you will learn to make yo
Following user feedback about Workers Docs, we reorganized and reformatted all of our content. The documentation is now intuitive to navigate and the content is now easy and enjoyable to read.
I just stumbled across Plyr from Sam Potts, a JavaScript library for styled video players. What struck me about it is that you can list YouTube videos as the
